I do weddings and I normally deliver on DVD but i want to start offering on Blu-Ray. I can figure out how to burn to Blu-Ray, etc. but I just wanted to know if I need to do anything else to my 1080p footage once downloaded from my camera. My footage is AVCHD 1080p and I download it using the Apple Pro Res 422 (LT) codec. I can probably use the footage right away but I was wondering if it would be choppy or hard to edit.

I use Final Cut Studio. I will probably use Encore to build the menus and burn to Blu-Ray.

For what it's worth (and Eric will probably rubbish me), I export my ProRes 1920 X 1080i timeline from my edit as a QT ProRes 422 .mov and just drag that .mov file into Titanium Toast Pro 11. That then does all the encoding (takes a while) and then it burns my BD. For this I connect a stand alone BD burner to my MacPro. I get absolutely brilliant BD's, the best I've seen, no idea how or why but that's what happens!

Daniel, I appreciate that I'm only encoding for straight viewing of a production, no menus or fancy graphics. For me Toast is fine but I do know that there are better, more commercially versatile programmes.